《Life Begins At Forty》歌词

[00:00:00] Life Begins at Forty - Sophie Tucker

[00:00:04] I've often heard it said and sung

[00:00:06] That life is sweetest

[00:00:07] When you're young

[00:00:09] And kids

[00:00:09] Sixteen to twenty-one

[00:00:11] Think they're having

[00:00:12] All the fun

[00:00:13] I disagree

[00:00:14] I say it isn't so

[00:00:15] And I'm one gal

[00:00:16] Who ought to know

[00:00:18] I started young

[00:00:18] And I'm still going strong

[00:00:20] But I've learned

[00:00:21] As I've gone along

[00:00:24] That life begins at forty

[00:00:28] That's when love

[00:00:29] And living start to become

[00:00:31] A gentle art

[00:00:33] A woman who's been careful

[00:00:34] Finds that's when she's

[00:00:36] In her prime

[00:00:37] And a good man

[00:00:38] When he's forty knows just

[00:00:40] How to take his time

[00:00:42] Conservative or sporty

[00:00:43] It's not until you're forty

[00:00:45] That you learn the how

[00:00:46] And why and the what and when

[00:00:49] In the twenties and the thirties

[00:00:51] You want your love

[00:00:51] In large amounts

[00:00:53] But after you reach forty

[00:00:55] It's the quality that counts

[00:00:57] Yes life begins at forty

[00:01:02] And I've just begun

[00:01:04] To live all over again

[00:01:06] You see the sweetest things

[00:01:09] In life grow sweeter

[00:01:11] As the years roll on

[00:01:14] Like the music from a violin

[00:01:17] That has been well played upon

[00:01:20] And the sweetest smoke

[00:01:22] Is from a mellow

[00:01:22] Broken and old pipe

[00:01:25] And the sweetest tasting peach

[00:01:28] Is one that's mature

[00:01:31] Round and ripe

[00:01:34] In the twenties and the thirties

[00:01:37] You're just an amateur

[00:01:39] But after you reach forty

[00:01:42] That's when you become a connoisseur

[00:01:45] Then it isn't grab and get it

[00:01:47] And a straight line for the door

[00:01:50] You're not hasty you're tasty

[00:01:54] You enjoy things so much more

[00:01:57] For instance

[00:01:59] A novice gulps his brandy down

[00:02:01] He doesn't understand

[00:02:03] Observe a connoisseur

[00:02:05] The way he holds it in his hand

[00:02:07] How he strokes the glass

[00:02:09] Fondles it warms it as he should

[00:02:13] Smaks his lips

[00:02:14] Aahhh slowly sips hah boy

[00:02:18] It tastes good

[00:02:20] Life begins at forty

[00:02:24] Then it isn't hit and run

[00:02:26] And you find much more fun

[00:02:28] You romance a girl of twenty

[00:02:30] And it costs you all your dough

[00:02:33] But when a forty thanks you

[00:02:35] She hates to see you go

[00:02:37] And girls of twenty

[00:02:38] All they want are big men

[00:02:40] Big men with strong physiques

[00:02:43] I don't say that it's bad

[00:02:45] But you do get tired

[00:02:47] Of those damn Greeks

[00:02:49] Life begins at forty

[00:02:52] And I'm just living all over again